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carmine, is here orange. The blue spot of the posterior 

 wing, which in A. ^don varies much, and is absent 

 altogether from one of m}'' specimens, is in A. Zenodorus 

 much larger, and of a brilliant Morjpho blue. 



Pronophila Praxithea. 



Male. Upperside. Dark brown ; outer margin den- 

 tate, slightly on the anterior, strongly on the posterior 

 wing. Anterior wing crossed from beyond the middle of 

 the costal margin to the anal angle by a very broad band 

 of orange, widest at the middle, slightly dentate on both 

 sides. Posterior wing with an orange spot at the apex. 



Underside as above, except that the costal margin is 

 marked with lines of white, and that it is undulate near 

 the apex with lilac, and marked with three minute white 

 spots. Posterior wing undulate near the costal margin 

 from its middle to the apex with rufous-brown and lilac- 

 white, and marked with three minute white spots ; 

 crossed beyond the middle by an irregular band undulate 

 with brown and white: sliglitly and indistinctly undulate 

 between this band and the outer margin and near the 

 inner margin with paler colour. 



Exp. 2^ inches. 



Hah. — St. Rosario. 



A beautiful species, marked like P. Phila on the 

 upperside, but twice the size. 



Pronopliila Pelinna. 



Male. Upperside. Dark brown, the outer margins 

 slightly indented. Anterior wing crossed from the costal 

 margin beyond its middle to very near the anal angle by 

 a broad band of orange, slightly indented on its inner 

 border. Posterior wing crossed beyond the middle from 

 the costal margin to the anal angle by a broad band of 

 orange, very irregular and zig-zag on its outer border. 



Underside as above, except that the anterior wing is 

 undulate with yellow near the apex, and crossed by a 

 series of four minute white spots, and that the orange 

 band of the posterior wing is much paler, is undulate and 

 clouded with brown, is marked near the apex with a spot 

 of lilac, and crossed by three or four minute white spots. 



Exp. 2y\|- inches. 



Hah. — St. Rosario. 



Nearly allied to P. Plicea, more nearly to P. Alusana. 



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